W3's Amaya Reaches Version 8.0

Xusto D. H. Sals writes "The W3C's web browser-cum-editor Amaya has finally reached version 8.0. Changes are detailed here. Out of interest, how many people use this as a HTML editor, if so why, or why not?"

Re:A good testbed

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It's nice to show off SVG and MathML,

A lot of people in the scientific community would welcome a means for easily publishing their work in a high quality format on the web. HTML is a nice standard when content and presentation can or should be separated. PDF permits high quality output, but the format is opaque to manual use unlike HTML.

That means scalable vector graphics and high quality mathematics typesetting, things which up until now have been available only through graphical drawing applications supporting PostScript or PDF, or document preparation systems like TeX.

If Amaya permitted one to author a graphical SVG sketch and to annotate specific locations with mathematical equations in MathML that would be rendered with TeX quality, that would be a real plus.

Re:Simple answer ...

[JimDabell]

Amaya is _so_ far behind the curve, it isn't even funny anymore.

It may have only just implemented things like floats, but it's had XHTML, SVG, annotations and MathML for years.

It's a testbed project - it's not behind the curve, it just has different priorities.

Re:Simple answer ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Note that a XHTML browser is significantly easier to implement than a Nutscrape/Internet Exploder HTML browser. You just refuse to render 99% of the pages on the Internet.